Posted on 06/23/2018 5:03:45 PM PDT by Simon Green
Canadians will soon be able to order marijuana through the mail as part of the nation’s new legalization of recreational pot.
Lawmakers in the country passed the Cannabis Act earlier this week, setting the country up to regulate the market in the coming months.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday that legalization will begin on Oct. 17. The country is the second to legalize the substance nationwide, after Uruguay.
The federal minimum age for marijuana use in Canada will be 18, but some provinces are setting their own minimum age at 19, which is the drinking age in most areas. Provinces are also creating their own regulations regarding pot shops, home-growing and taxes.
Medical marijuana, which has been legal in Canada for nearly 20 years, has been available through the mail since 2013.
The country’s postal service said in a statement that it will deliver regulated recreational marijuana following the same policies, such as proof of age upon delivery, according to ABC News.
Though nine states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana, it is still against the law to have it delivered through the mail in the U.S.
Canada really needs this.
It will help them remember the 623 possible gender pronouns they are now obliged to be ready to use at any moment by Canadian Public Law C-16.
US Postal Service suddenly sees a way back to solvency...
Is it healthy to breath hot smoke?
CANNABIS USE AND RISK OF LUNG CANCER: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY
Results:
There were 79 cases of lung cancer and 324 controls. The risk of lung cancer increased 8% (95% CI 2% to 15%) for each joint-year of cannabis smoking, after adjustment for confounding variables including cigarette smoking, and 7% (95% CI 5% to 9%) for each pack-year of cigarette smoking, after adjustment for confounding variables including cannabis smoking. The highest tertile of cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of lung cancer RR=5.7 (95% CI 1.5 to 21.6), after adjustment for confounding variables including cigarette smoking.
Conclusions:
Long term cannabis use increases the risk of lung cancer in young adults.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516340/
Trainwreck. “ CONSservative” party will NEVER repeal this monstrosity .
150+ Scientific Studies Showing the Dangers of Marijuana
Marijuana can cause - Brain Damage (Lowered IQ, Memory Loss, Paranoia, Psychosis, Schizophrenia); Mood Disorders (Aggression, Anxiety, Depression, Irritability); Cancer; Heart Attacks; Gum Disease; Impaired Motor Skills; Lung Disease; Obesity; Osteoporosis; Pregnancy Complications; Sexual Dysfunction; Strokes, Viral Infections and even Death
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday that legalization will begin on Oct. 17. The country is the second to legalize the substance nationwide, after Uruguay.
Trudeau follows Uruguay’s behind.
First it was light years, now it’s joint years.
What’s next? Ganja parsecs?
Yes, yes, and yes!
The damage to future generations of children is unimaginable!
It’s always fun to tell the U.N. to screw off.
“Trainwreck”. Some will get it! ;)
Vaping is quickly replacing smoking. No smoke — no dangerous products of combustion, and less heat.
OK, overuse of anything is harmful.
There are many cases of lung cancer in patients that have never smoked anything.
I don’t believe in inhaling anything but clean, cool air, I only ask that we outlaw pollen....
Regarding marijuana, would you recommend incarceration as we currently do?
Scientific fact pot harms the brain in the young. The human brain does not stop developing anti the age 21 or so.
Cocaine is harmless in small quantities, so is morphine.Heroin dens exist in Vancouver. In fact, they give you clean needles to do drugs. You overdose? There are specific rescue crews that will resuscitate you, give you more needles. They’re basically saying, “ Do drugs, bet you can’t overdoes again?”
This is like legalizing beer but keeping whiskey, vodka,rum illegal.
The damaging effects of smoking too much marijuana on the young are well publicized.
But you can drive by nearly any high school and find areas right off campus where students smoke cigarettes openly.
Canada is hardly in the lead for rescuing overdoses. Most US cities have needle exchanges and first responders that carry Narcan. Canada is unusual in that it has safe injection sites.
It is not about cherry-picking one drug/alcohol over another, the issue is what to do about it.
Jailing the large numbers of users doesn’t work.
Legalizing it won’t work either.
How about a compromise. Heavy fines and penalties. Individuals lose their govt. health cards and have to pay cash every time they access a govt. hospital due to the common CPD problems pot causes. Added to that , a special higher income tax bracket due to the drag on the economy drug users are.
OK, would you say that tobacco smokers pay extra for their documented higher health care costs that the rest of us are paying for?
I’ll guarantee that tobacco-caused, elevated insurance premiums woiuld be fart higher than marijuana.
From the CDC:
Cigarettes kill 480,000 deaths per year in the US, including more than 41,000 deaths from secondhand smoke. That’s 20% of all deaths.
OK, tobacco kills 41,000 Americans that don’t even smoke........
Where’s the body count on marijuana?
It’s not about what will or will not work.
There is no absolute answer about how society should respond to people that freely choose to hurt themselves.
The issue is, how much we should hurt those over-users of anything.
Why not.
Use drugs to alter your brain chemistry and experiment on yourself, you pay for it.
Besides, the Canada Health Act is an anachronism of the 30`s brought top us by a racist eugenicist, Tommy Douglas not to mention a fundamental violation of Natural law and inalienable rights. ( see Chaoulli v Quebec ).
Oops!
woiuld be fart = would be far LOL
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